Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions

Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions

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A collection of physics problems and solutions, full of dry humour and enjoyable cartoons. This book provides a helpful guide for PhD-exam preparation and a review of all major areas of classical and modern physics, and will teach readers some of the quirky ways in which physicists think.

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Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions by Dmitry Budker

Physics on Your Feet gives a collection of physics problems covering the broad range of topics in classical and modern physics that were, or could have been, asked at oral PhD exams at Berkeley. The questions are easy to formulate, but some of them can only be answered using an out-of-the-box approach. Detailed solutions are provided, from which the reader is guaranteed to learn a lot about the physicists' way of thinking. The book is also packed full of cartoons and dry humour to help take the edge off the stress and anxiety surrounding exams. This is a helpful guide to students preparing for their exams, as well as to University lecturers looking for good instructive problems. No exams are necessary to enjoy the book!
This practical study book for university students will help every student in the preparation for exams* Jan M. Broeders. Optische Fenomenen *
The inventive and challenging puzzles in this book are guaranteed to make you think and they will probably also make you glad youre not encountering them on your feet in an exam. * Physics World *
Dmitry Budker has been a physics professor at Berkeley since 1995, where he previously was both a PhD student and a post-doc. Since 2014, he is at the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz, Germany, and a Section Leader at the Helmoltz Institute, Mainz. Alexander Sushkov, upon passing all the exams and obtaining his PhD from Berkeley in 2006, has been conducting cutting edge research at Yale and Harvard.
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ISBN 13 9780199681662
ISBN 10 019968166X
Title Physics on Your Feet: Berkeley Graduate Exam Questions
Author Dmitry Budker
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2015-01-29
Number of pages 218
Prizes Winner of Selected by Physics World as one of the top Physics books of 2015.
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